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2011 Books 52-54
52) Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell: another of his investigations into social statistics, this was excellent. I do wonder why Canada _doesn't_ implement the 6 month split children's hockey league. Maybe if they had they'd have won the cup this year....
53-54) City of Glass and Ghosts by Paul Auster: Purchased in an airport bookstore months and months ago I finally got to it. Now I wonder why I bothered. Self-consciously 'literary' blather about the nature of identity. Blah blah blah. There's not anything in here that I haven't seen done before; plus it twigged my irritation of people writing literary fiction following all the same genre tropes of 'literature' in the format of "reinventing" some existing genre with insights so banal that any genre reader makes them almost immediately. This was purchased in a volume of "The New York Trilogy" and the third book will, in all likelyhood, remain unread.
53-54) City of Glass and Ghosts by Paul Auster: Purchased in an airport bookstore months and months ago I finally got to it. Now I wonder why I bothered. Self-consciously 'literary' blather about the nature of identity. Blah blah blah. There's not anything in here that I haven't seen done before; plus it twigged my irritation of people writing literary fiction following all the same genre tropes of 'literature' in the format of "reinventing" some existing genre with insights so banal that any genre reader makes them almost immediately. This was purchased in a volume of "The New York Trilogy" and the third book will, in all likelyhood, remain unread.